San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-06
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts of the Globe, Con-
densed and Boiled Down.


Reagan has set up his headquarters at
the Avenue hotel, Austin.
Congress will be asked to grant Mrs
Logan a pension Of S2.000.
An accounting OF all the Pacific COM
panies with the government Ia called for.
The Indian appropriation bill disburs-
ing S5,ll5,OOO passes the house.
Cancer will probably end shipbuilder
Roach's career in less than u month.
Lsmsr took Holt for better for worse
yesterday.
Salisbury wants Landsdown, governor
general Of Canada, to enter his cabinet.
Earthquake shocks continue at Sum
merville; all quiet NJ Charleston.
Old Probs. says cold wave coming
Friday.
Corpus Christi fish and oyster trade is
booming.
The bsrbor OF Konigsburg Is frozen
over and navigation is closed.
The president approves the new
civil service rules. Is he again their
enforcementp
James w. Reid, of North Carolina,
rendered his resignation as representa-
tive.
Minnesota has bill limiting legal in
terest to per cent. Ignstius Donnelly
fathers 1t.
Military preparations fOstered by Rus
sian money and agents are active in
Montenegro.
The earthquake or some other quake
is reported TO have given Bastrop county
| a shake.
Manning's name has not yet been sent
to the United States senate for approval
as minister to Mexico.
Grover has stiff right knee and a
stiff upper lip. Time will probably help
the knee.
Snow fell Wednesday at Macon, Geor.
gia, to the depth OF six inChes;the heavi-
est fall In six years.
The council of the Fenisn Brother
hood has issued another circular de-
nouncing O'DOnovaD Rosa.
The Adolph Meyers sugar house in
Iberville parish, Louisiana, burned; loss
100000; insured.
W.atherly, Stevens & Co., of Cincin-
natl, assign for $l55, 900; assets placed at
$l3S,000.
The billiard tournament for the west
ern championship and gold medals. and
other prizes, is In progress at st. Louis.
The New York Sun says a special ses-
ofthe Knights OF Labor Is all that can
avert split.
1t is stated that the Pope will hold q
| oonsistOry on the 10th instant, when he
will nominate number Of bishops.
Stanley will be presented with the
freedom of the CITY OF London next
Thursday.
Among the senate combinations are
those OF j. NJ. Byrnes and b. Kawalsky,
pOstmasters, respectively, OF Brenham
| and Brownsville.
Senator Blair introduces bill appro
priating $6O0,000 for the colOred pt o.
pies worlds exposition, TO commence
in Birmingham, Ala, next September.
Secretary Bayard calls attention to the
fact that the United States levies higher
duties upon works of art than any other
civilized nation.
The brutal treatment of sailor on
the Spreckles steamer Alameda, from
sidney, is reported at San Francisco.
The crime was virtually murder.
Rumors are persistently kept afloat in
st. Petersburg and Odessa that Prince
Alexander is arranging for his return
to Sofia, as king of Bulgaria.
Twenty houses in Lubbock, Germany,
occupied by socialists, have been search
ed by the police authorities under the
| anti-sOcialist law.
The German East African company,
which has been reconstructed, is issuing
shares of loo marks each, TO the amount
of 4.000. 900 marks.
The number of coal handlers on the
Jersey docks, now on strike against re-
| duced wages, numbers 25,0O0; there are
700,OO0 tons of coal tied up.
Coal trade journals report that the
production Of anthracite coal for the
year 1866 was 80 426, 722 tons. against 3d.
500, 100 tons in 1855. The demand is IN
usually good.
Illinois legislature elects W. f. CAL
houn speaker. Farwell, Payson and
Cannon are the most prominent sena-
torial candidates.
The independent democrats in North
Carolina elect their speaker, J. X. Web
ster, defeating the regular democrats by
two votes.
The archbishops of Dublin and Cork
are accused of disObeying the pope's
positive instructions In supporting the
nationalist movement.
Poisoning by the use of impure bak-
ing powder threatens the lives of u
prominent family of BlockfOrd county,
Indiana.
The freight crew by whole careless
ness the awful disaster on the Baltimore
& Ohio was caused were drunk An
other case of carelessness.
The movement is heralded to abolish
taxes on fruit-brandy and tobacco, by
the southern members in congress. APP
ple-jack and tobacco are necessities.
The river and harbor appropriations
bill Is ready. 1t gives Galveston S225. =
600, Sabine Pass Sl25, 900, Arkansas Pass
$4,000.
Patti was fairly smothered In flowers
at Mexico and the vast audience went
wild over her divine singing. The Pari-
sian toilets and diamonds recalled the
palmist days of CarlOtta and the en-
pire.
Col. Cheves, temperance lecturer, as
saulted by the mayor OF Greenville, Ala,
for personal structures made upon him
In public address, has sued the mayor
| for $50, OO0 damages.
The Buffalo Lubricating Oil company
sues the Standard Oil company for con-
| spiracy in bribing Superintendent Miller
| to explode the works OF the former com.
pany.
The Mauri family, New York par.
ents and six children, were poisoned